I have been thinking to myself. I noticed that there is absolutely no reason to being living. Our sole purpose in life is, plainly, just to exist. We die and everything goes on as usual. People say "oh what about those good times you will have." They all go away when you die. "What about if someone loves you." They will die too and he/she/it will not matter when you are dead. There is no reason to live. There is no purpose in life. We might as well all die now, since there is no point. The universe would go on as usual and we are nothing but a speck in the universe. I do believe in existentialism. That is just a fancy word for: our sole purpose in life is just to exist. Nothing more. Nothing less. I want some of the Beach members to agrue their position. I think that I have started the discussion so I will let you guys take over.
Life and Death Part 2
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RE: Life and Death Part 2 ~~ Is Life......Pointless?
Perhaps you are right, and our sole purpose in life is to exist, and pass on.
However...
We are part of a carefully balanced ecosystem, and if the human race were to cease to exist, it may harm the ecosystem badly. And, perhaps because of this turmoil on Earth, the universe would go into an entire chain reaction. Who knows?
However, there is no definite answer to this, as we can't prove anything you ask. It is simply a matter of opinion and beliefs, and so I say "maybe."
Also, cool, I'm first to post, yeah.
Perhaps you are right, and our sole purpose in life is to exist, and pass on.
However...
We are part of a carefully balanced ecosystem, and if the human race were to cease to exist, it may harm the ecosystem badly. And, perhaps because of this turmoil on Earth, the universe would go into an entire chain reaction. Who knows?
However, there is no definite answer to this, as we can't prove anything you ask. It is simply a matter of opinion and beliefs, and so I say "maybe."
Also, cool, I'm first to post, yeah.
Life is not pointless, this can be shown from all POV's ....Science, common sense and if you don't have those in your life...religion.
Close thread.
Close thread.
Since there is no "objective" purpose to life, we may as well enjoy it, and make ourselves and others feel fulfilled while we can. Sure you can word it how you did and make it seem depressing, but I think it's more of a "glass half-empty/full" situation where it just depends on your outlook.
*Sigh... Yes, there might be no purpose in life, in this way, life is pointless. But perhaps that's the whole point of life of having no purpose?
If you consider life as pointless you may as well consider everything, the whole existence itself, as pointless. But seriously do you want to worry every day, sitting in a corner, about whether your existence is pointless or not? I don't think so. Things we call friendship, fun, love etc. is what keeps us from doing so. We can make our own purpose in life, things we achieve and things we desire. Yet there are people enough not able to do this for themselves and seek their excuse in religion for example...
If you consider everything as pointless. And if everything now stops from existing, yes of course everything would've been pointless. But as long as existence, life and we still exist I'm not going to worry about the value of life. Since the value of life is something you have to make up on your own.
As long as you live, make something of your life. To consider the idea of life being pointless, has no purpose and things like 'I could as well be dead' is just sad...
If you consider life as pointless you may as well consider everything, the whole existence itself, as pointless. But seriously do you want to worry every day, sitting in a corner, about whether your existence is pointless or not? I don't think so. Things we call friendship, fun, love etc. is what keeps us from doing so. We can make our own purpose in life, things we achieve and things we desire. Yet there are people enough not able to do this for themselves and seek their excuse in religion for example...
If you consider everything as pointless. And if everything now stops from existing, yes of course everything would've been pointless. But as long as existence, life and we still exist I'm not going to worry about the value of life. Since the value of life is something you have to make up on your own.
As long as you live, make something of your life. To consider the idea of life being pointless, has no purpose and things like 'I could as well be dead' is just sad...
F@#$ing existential nihilists, what with their "there's no reason for living WE ARE SO SAD" and all. Should just kill themselves already if they're so depressed by that.
The purpose of living is to live and enjoy yourself! Who needs a greater purpose of some sort when you get to screw around in real life for 60-100 years or so (provided you don't die young, which is basically the universe's way of saying "you suck and I hate you") and then maybe go on to eternal bliss depending on your religious beliefs?
It's not like you'll spend much time contemplating what you did with your life from a hole in the ground.
Also, you do happen to be alive, whether you like it or believe you have some purpose or not! DEAL WITH IT.
(I am disappointed that there is no snarky poll option like "only your life is pointless")
The purpose of living is to live and enjoy yourself! Who needs a greater purpose of some sort when you get to screw around in real life for 60-100 years or so (provided you don't die young, which is basically the universe's way of saying "you suck and I hate you") and then maybe go on to eternal bliss depending on your religious beliefs?
It's not like you'll spend much time contemplating what you did with your life from a hole in the ground.
Also, you do happen to be alive, whether you like it or believe you have some purpose or not! DEAL WITH IT.
(I am disappointed that there is no snarky poll option like "only your life is pointless")
In many ways there is no point. In many ways there is. It all depends on your beliefs and how you choose to look at it.
For the average person, what happens in their life?
They are born.
They go to school.
They get a job.
They work till their old.
They die.
None of those things serve a higher purpose or anything.
Using a good anime quote; (modified)
"Currently, im not really living, im just merely going through the motions of living."
Day to day I wake up and do school. Eat dinner and go to bed.
Whats the point?
We humans have no further purpose then animals do. In fact, we have less purpose then they do.
There have only been a few people through out history that were ever really "Living".
Martin Luthor King was one of them. He impaced the world in a drastic way.
If you turn to the bible, you will find that our purpose is to help people and turn them to the good lord.
If we were put here to help each other, why put us here at all?
We certainly arent helping nature any.
No, there really is not purpose or higher calling to living. We are just taking up space and recources.
For the average person, what happens in their life?
They are born.
They go to school.
They get a job.
They work till their old.
They die.
None of those things serve a higher purpose or anything.
Using a good anime quote; (modified)
"Currently, im not really living, im just merely going through the motions of living."
Day to day I wake up and do school. Eat dinner and go to bed.
Whats the point?
We humans have no further purpose then animals do. In fact, we have less purpose then they do.
There have only been a few people through out history that were ever really "Living".
Martin Luthor King was one of them. He impaced the world in a drastic way.
If you turn to the bible, you will find that our purpose is to help people and turn them to the good lord.
If we were put here to help each other, why put us here at all?
We certainly arent helping nature any.
No, there really is not purpose or higher calling to living. We are just taking up space and recources.
What's with you silly monkeys always wanting a point for everything? Not everything has a point and not everything needs a point. Life is great, and trying to find an absolute purpose to it all will only take away from its greatness. Enjoy your purposeless life instead of crying trying to find a purpose...
Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAPmA0vnlE
Better than I could ever say it.
Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAPmA0vnlE
Better than I could ever say it.
Heavenly Spoon :F said:
I agree with you there.
Why people post topics like this is beyond me. WHile I do think life is pointless, Im not complaining either.
There are too many fun perks along the way to really call life bad.
In some ways, life is only pointless if you make it pointless.
We can all choose to do things with our life. Its up to us and us alone.
We all live a life weather we choose to do somthing worth while or not.
shadoworganoid said:
All the things that would make life "meaningful" is all a distraction.
@Zenith "The purpose of living is to live and enjoy yourself!"
Where do you come to that conclusion? Life has no purpose.
@Spoony
Everything happens for a reason, why not discover the purpose for life and why we are here. IF there is a purpose.
@Pokequaza "We can make our own purpose in life"
It's all a distraction as I said before.
@sixnumbers "Life is not pointless, this can be shown from all POV's ....Science, common sense"
How does science come into this? Where in common sense does it say that life is not pointless.
I like this discussion, it is much like the one I had in school
Me vs everyone lol
If you really feel that way go kill yourself, you're not really contributing to anything as far as I can tell .-.#1weavile said:
Really, you're obviously not suicidal, so you have some purpose for living. Your argument is self-defeating. If you truly believe that your life has no purpose, why do you continue to live?
shadoworganoid said:
Sure, many people do live like that and are perfectly happy. Some not. Some ignorant.
There is a purpose to ones own life. Well, I do know my purpose. My purpose is to make music. I'm slowly getting more popular in my genre and may have a small chance at becoming big. I provide emotions to others.
Our sole purpose in life is to exist. It is hardwired into us. On a universal scale, we are nothing. So, what does that matter? The fact that we can impact the life of other humans on OUR little place in the universe is what is important. Even if we do eventually reach singularity and become obsolete. We could say our purpose was technology.
Our purpose is to exist.
There really doesn't need to be a purpose. You can keep asking "why does this happen? what is its purpose?" but it won't do you a bit of good. It happens, deal with it. Death might indeed have a purpose, but we have no way of knowing what that is. You only find out what comes after when you die...if there is anything on the other side.
Personally I think it is pointless to fear the inevitable. Push it from your mind, have a good life. Enjoy every moment, because every one of them is precious. Nothing is truly pointless.
Personally I think it is pointless to fear the inevitable. Push it from your mind, have a good life. Enjoy every moment, because every one of them is precious. Nothing is truly pointless.